Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Last Ride of the Year

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

Thanks George - and a Happy New Year to you too
DOUG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George" <georgedodson [at] comcast.net>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 1:29 PM
Subject: [Ferrari] Last Ride of the Year


> ?It was a beautiful day in East Tennessee. The roads were dry. The sun was
> out and the temperature was somewhere normal (50F), contrasted with the 
> 20F
> below normal that we have had since the end of November.  I took Scarlett
> (81'  308 GTSi) out for a top-off romp. It was great. She loves to dance
> through the corners with the G forces swaying from side to side. I get a
> little clutch slip at 5500 RPM with the accelerator to the floor. I'll pop
> the clutch out and have a look in January when she is put to bed for the
> winter. The Physicist side of my brain again asks "Why do you have to 
> drive
> with your floor to the floor at all"?  The other side of my brain says 
> "Life
> is all about having your foot to the floor at 5500 RPM.  Just fix the damn
> clutch!"  The first drive in the new year will have to wait for the two 
> days
> of expected rain to pass. Drive them, it's what they were built for. A 
> Happy
> New Year to all of you.
>
> Regards,
> George
>
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